"He said she had intended to visit police the next day because she had two other children with her at the time."
So after realising that her daughter went missing she continued on her merry way with a reminder to drop by the police station the next day to report the incident?... Am I getting this right?
WA hit by 4.8 quake Font Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print Jim Kelly | October 10, 2007 AN earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale has rocked parts of southern WA - and has been felt as far away as Perth.
The quake, centred southeast of Kojonup - about 270km from the city - struck just before 8am (10am AEST) and was felt as far away as Albany , Narrogin and even Perth.
It is the strongest quake to have hit the south of WA in 40 years.
There are no reports of damage or injury but some residents in city apartment blocks reported feeling the tremor.
Several months ago a minor earthquake was recorded south east of Augusta with tremors felt in Albany and along the south coast.
Former prime minister Bob Hawke now has a library, auditorium and gallery named after him in Adelaide. (AAP: Nicolas Perpitch)...
A building named after former prime minister Bob Hawke has been opened at the University of South Australia's City West campus in Adelaide.
The $35 million Hawke Building will be a library, art museum, auditorium and civic gallery.
The library contains hundreds of thousands of Mr Hawke's prime ministerial papers and speeches.
He says there is other memorabilia including a replica of a motorcyle he owned during his university years.
"That Panther motorcycle is pretty important because I had an accident on it where I ruptured my spleen and I was on the critically-ill list for a week, so I nearly didn't pull through," he said.
A 14-year-old boy armed with a rifle and home-made grenades was arrested after confessing to plotting a "Columbine-like attack" on a suburban Philadelphia high school, US police said.
The boy, who was not identified, told police he was a planning an attack on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School similar to the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado in which two students killed 13 people, said Joe Lawrence, deputy chief of police in Plymouth Meeting.
Acting on a tip from a neighbour, police arrested the boy at his home in Plymouth Township north of Philadelphia where they found one Hi-Tech 9 mm rifle with a laser sight, 30 to 50 pellet guns and four hand grenades, one of which was live and three of which were still being made, police said.
The boy was schooled at home where he lived with his mother and father, both of whom knew about the weapons, Lawrence said. The mother bought him the rifle at a gun show, he said.
Lawrence would not say whether the boy was inspired by events in Ohio on Wednesday, when a 14-year-old student shot and wounded two adults and two students before killing himself.
So after realising that her daughter went missing she continued on her merry way with a reminder to drop by the police station the next day to report the incident?... Am I getting this right?
No actually that wasn't it. The woman had just moved to that area with her three kids. She went to the local school to enrol the school aged child, she had the little girl that was left behind at the curb and a child in a stroller as well as the school aged child. The little girl did not want to hold her mother's hand to cross the road. The Mother became frustrated and decided to leave the child behind, on the curb. After enrolling the school aged child (a boy I think) she came back outside and the little girl had gone from the other side of the road and the mother could not see her. To 'teach the child a lesson' she left the little girl behind without finding her. She decided to punish the child by not going to the police until the next day to report her missing (sounds a bit sus to me) but by then the Queensland papers were screaming headlines about a little girl being found on school grounds (the day after she went 'missing'). The Mother is obviously an idiot who does not deserve to be the carer of her children. That little girl could of been abducted and heaven's knows what, run over by a vehicle, attacked by wild dogs/dingoes, bitten by a snake or wandered off never to be found again. The harm this stupid mother put her little one in is beyond comprehension. Wonder if the mother has 'learnt her lesson'!
Ben Cousins arrested in Perth Tuesday October 16, 06:10 PM
Troubled AFL star Ben Cousins has been taken into police custody after being arrested in a street in Perth's nightclub district late on Tuesday morning.
Cousins, who is undergoing rehabilitation for substance abuse, was in his four-wheel drive when two police cars pulled it over in Aberdeen Street at Northbridge at about 10.30am (WST), witnesses said.
It is not yet known why Cousins was arrested.
West Australian Police still had not released any information at 4.30pm, but were expected to hold a media conference.
Nine Network television footage showed Cousins, shirtless, being led by a detective from his vehicle to a police car, where he sat in the back seat between two officers.
Cousins, wearing large sunglasses and displaying his large body tattoo "Such is life", did not appear to be saying anything when led away.
Later footage on Seven showed him still shirtless in a courtyard at the Perth police station.
Nine Network reporter Grant Taylor said he saw police conduct a thorough search of Cousins and his vehicle on the roadside. He said a young woman was also in the car.
"We also understand that police are also questioning another man, there's a rumour that that other man could be a current member of the West Coast Eagles," Taylor told Southern Cross Broadcasting in Perth.
He said it did not appear that Cousins' car was pulled over in a random stop.
Cousins has never tested positive to illicit drugs but flew to the United States for rehabilitation earlier this year and apologised for his conduct.
He returned to play for the club on a number of conditions, believed to include a zero tolerance clause to testing positive to banned substances, staying away from underworld figures and not falling foul of the law.
Cousins, a former skipper of the club, was with Eagles legend Chris Mainwaring hours before he died earlier this month.
The AFL club said earlier on Tuesday that it knew nothing of the incident.
"I'm not sure if he's even in the country, he's on leave," the spokesman said.
Eagles communications manager Gary Stocks said he was not aware of the reason for the arrest.
"I haven't been told what he has been arrested in relation to," Stocks said.
He said no one from the club had yet spoken to Cousins, who he believed was still in police custody.
Cousins was later transferred in an unmarked police car from the East Perth traffic centre to the Perth police station at Curtin House.
Police have refused to confirm that officers are also speaking to West Coast player Daniel Chick.
Sgt Graham Clifford said in a statement that he did not expect action relating to the arrest to be completed until late this evening.
Cousins' former girlfriend Samantha Druce was seen at Curtin House, where Cousins is being held.
The pair split earlier this year.
Druce was stranded in Cousins' car in February last year when Cousins ran from a booze bus.
Cousins' father and manager Bryan is also understood to have visited Cousins at Curtin House were he is being questioned by Major Crime Squad detectives.
Police divers will search a pond in Sydney's south-west this morning in which a suitcase containing the body of a child was found floating yesterday afternoon.
Two children aged about 10 and 12 opened the case after finding it floating in a duckpond at Mandurama Reserve at Rosemeadow, near Campbelltown, about 5pm, a police spokeswoman said.
"Inside the suitcase was the body of a child," she said. Police believe the body is that of a boy. The body appeared to be partly wrapped in plastic and between five and 10 years old. Police said the body was in a foetal position.
"We will have a post-mortem at some stage today which will give use some more information," said Detective Chief Inspector Gary Clark from Campbelltown local area command.
Police this morning would search the pond and surrounding land, he said.
The suitcase and the body had also been removed from bank of the pond, he said.
"Pathologists did a preliminary investigation last night and took the remains back to the morgue," he said.
Chief Inspector Clark told reporters last night that it was too early to determine how long the case, which he described as a small black travel bag, had been in the pond. Nor was he able to say whether the body had been clothed.
He said police believed the body to be the victim of a suspicious death. Police were making inquiries with the missing persons unit.
He said police would like to speak to a number of children and other locals who are believed to have seen the bag in the pond in recent days.
The children who found the case said they thought the bloated body was a pig before they levered it from the bag with sticks.
"We were riding on our scooters when a friend … said there was a dead pig down at the duckpond, so we went down to see," one of the boys told reporters at the scene. "Me and my friend James here got sticks and flipped it over and then we saw that there was feet so we went up to our houses to call the police."
As dusk fell last night, police illuminated the site, which is near the corner of Cleopatra and Crispsparkle drives, and the suitcase remained on the bank of the pond.
Man crashes car twice after drinking half a carton 12:00a.m. 18 October 2007 | By Rae Wilson
A Maroochydore man, already disqualified from driving, drank half a carton of beer and crashed his car twice in one night.
Luke Owens, 20, was driving home along Maud Street at Maroochydore about 12.30am on September 23 when he lost control on a bend.
He fishtailed and slid on to the wrong side of the road, forcing another driver to swerve sharply but unable to avoid a collision.
Mr Owens, knowing he was disqualified from driving and would be over the legal alcohol limit, fled down Bungama Street with the driver of the other car in pursuit.
While trying to execute a turn into May Street, Mr Owens lost control a second time.
He ran off the road, drove through a front lawn, crossed onto the other side of the road, bumped a kerb, and crashed into a parked car.
Police prosecutor Leanne Chawner told Maroochydore Magistrates Court that Mr Owens admitted “he had been driving like an idiot and was being reckless”.
She said he did stay at the scene of the second accident and recorded a 0.126% BAC at 1.20am.
Acting Senior Constable Chawner said Mr Owens told police he had consumed half a carton of beer at the Mooloolaba Bowls Club earlier in the night.
Solicitor Ross Felmingham said Mr Owens was driving home on a damp road and his vehicle swung out on the bend.
He said Mr Owens, a timber yard hand, drove off because he “panicked”.
Mr Owens was fined $2300 for driving without due care and attention, failing to give particulars, drink-driving and disqualified driving. He was disqualified from driving for two years.
A cyclist also faced court yesterday for drink-driving more than three times the limit.
Bradley Wayne Booth, 26, was riding “all over the road in front of police” with a 0.176% BAC about 1.50am on September 29.
He told police he had earlier consumed about seven schooners and was riding down to get food.
“I just honestly did not know it was an offence,” he told the court yesterday. “I had to work the next day. I was hungry. I had nothing really in my cupboard, I just went down to get a feed.”
Acting magistrate Russell Lebsanft warned that riding any vehicle – including pushbikes, horses and skateboards – above the legal alcohol limit was against the law. He fined Mr Booth $375 without a licence disqualification.
Police investigating the murder of a boy, whose naked body was found stuffed in a suitcase in south-west Sydney on Wednesday, say he may be as young as two.
A group of children found the body, which was wrapped in plastic, after fishing the bag from a park lake in Ambarvale.
Police initially thought the boy was between five and 10. They then revised that to between four and eight, but are now saying he is probably two to four years old.
Detective Superintendent Geoff Beresford says that has frustrated attempts to identify the victim.
"With a child as young as two years of age, dental records are virtually non-existent," he said.
"School records, of course, don't exist and often, there's very little by way of medical records, so identification remains a problem.
"It's extremely frustrating. It hampers the progress in the investigation."
Detective Beresford says the post-mortem has been conducted but there is no conclusion yet on the cause of death.
Police divers have finished dragging the lake and found several items, including a knife, but Detective Beresford says they do not fit the initial findings of the post-mortem.
He says forensic tests will be carried out on the items and he is also waiting on further tests on the body, which could take another 24 hours.
Locals' concerns
Locals are worried about reports of a suspicious white van approaching children in the area regularly in recent weeks. Its driver is described as having a North American accent and blond hair.
But Detective Beresford says he suspects the boy was murdered by a parent or guardian because no boy of that age has been reported to the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit.
He says police are extending their search to interstate databases.
The officer says police are taking reports about the van seriously but it is unlikely it is linked to the murder because the case does not fit the profile of a kidnapping.
Public help
Detective Beresford says police have received a lot of useful information from the public but anyone who has not come forward should do so.
"Anybody who has any ideas or even any thoughts that may occur to them that they may know of a child as young as two that they haven't seen for the last week or so, we would urge them to contact us, bearing in mind the child may not come from the local area," he said.
Anyone who thinks they have previously seen the tartan suitcase or has other information related to the case is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
But Detective Beresford says he suspects the boy was murdered by a parent or guardian because no boy of that age has been reported to the New South Wales Missing Persons Unit.
That makes sense. There must be a very nervous person in the commnunity right now. Surely someone knows something.
It looks like police have identified who the child is and are questioning a 26yr old female and 29 yr old male, but they do not say how they are related to child.
Someone left a touching poem at the lake.... “The very thought of this little body lying there so still. Pain comes into our hearts and it makes you feel ill.”
Police have confirmed that the woman charged with the murder of a young boy in south-west Sydney is his mother.
DNA tests have confirmed that the body found in a suitcase floating in an Ambarvale pond is that of a two-year-old Rosemeadow boy.
His 26-year-old mother has been charged with his murder overnight after extensive questioning.
The 29-year-old partner of the mother was released by police without charge.
The woman was driven to various sites believed to be related to the alleged murder yesterday.
At the pond where the boy's body was found, abuse was hurled at police and the woman from grieving residents who had gathered to pay their respects to the dead child.
The woman has been refused bail and will appear at Parramatta Court today.
The boy's body was discovered packed in a suitcase in a pond in Ambarvale last week by a group of children
It made me cry when I read the following article on this little tot. I won't post the entire report but I recommend you click the link and read it in full.
Body in suitcase: police charge toddler's mother
Eamonn Duff, Heath Gilmore and Angela Cuming October 21, 2007
THE mother of the two-year-old boy found dead in a suitcase in a pond was this morning charged with the child's murder.
Officers from Strike Force Eber interviewed the woman, 26, and her 29-year-old boyfriend over the death of the toddler. The man was released pending further inquiries.
Bail was refused and the woman will appear in Parramatta Bail Court today.
exerpt: A man learnt from the media that the mystery corpse found in the pond in Ambarvale on Wednesday could be that of his grandson. "I never even got to hold the little fella," he said.
exerpt: Grieving neighbours, friends and strangers added tributes to a candle-lit shrine beside the pond. One of the cards said: "All of us here who use the reserve will look after you always". Another said: "I don't know you but I'm sure my Poppy will look after you in heaven".
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